The Lower House. 649

Honours as a Councill of State we are of Oppinion that the
publick ought not to be burthened with paying for the privy
Councillors Attendance out of Assembly time not for that wee
Doubt your Honours haveing at heart the Common Weal
of this province as much when Acting as privy Councillors
as when in Conjunction with our House in makeing of whol-
some Laws for the good Government of this Province but for
that we find by An Act made in the year 1670/1 Two Shillings
p hh^d was raised to the Right Hon^rble Cecilius then Lord
and Proprietary thereof dureing his Life to Enable him in
some Measure to defray the many great and necessary Ex-
pences of Government and in particular to Allow Convenient
Sallaries and Encouragements to the Lieutenant Gen and
Chief Governour And to the privy Councill of the Lord and
proprietary of the province for the then time being so as
without prejudice to their private Affairs they might be
Encouraged to Attend unto the Administration of Justice and
other publick Concernm^ts as also towards the maintaining a
Constant Magazine with Arms and Amunition for the De-
fence of the province And the other twelve pence p hh^d was
raised in Consideration of his Lordships takeing his Quit Rents
and fines for Alienations in Tobacco at two pence p^r pound &
also for that one Other Act in the year 1674 and another in
the year 1678 Raises the Same Duty for the same uses
We also find by the Act made in the year 1717 that one shilling
p hh^d was raised towards the maintaining the Station and
Dignity of his Lordship's Lieutenant Governour Actually
Inhabiting and resideing within this province And to such
other necessary uses towards the Support and Defence of
the said Lord proprietarys Government of this province as
in his Lordships Wisdom to him should seem meet upon which
we are humbly of opinion that as the privy Councill are a
part of the Government Chosen by his Lordship to Support
the prerogative so we presume that part of that twelve pence
p hh^d is raised to defray the Charges of the Councill out of
Assembly time. Wee further Observe to Your Honours That
by the Act of Assembly that Ascertains the Expences of the
Councillors Delegates &c. all such are to be Allowed the Sum
of One hundred and fifty pounds of Tobacco p^r day dureing
the time they shall attend such Assembleys and no more
besides their Itinerant Charges to be paid out of the publick
Levy So that should we Assess that on the people whom we

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represent which in our Opinion they Ought not to be bur-
thened with and we are not warranted to do we should be
Esteemed but bad husbands of their money and little deserv-

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